Sentence examples for surface of the picture from inspiring English sources

The crowd does not rush toward you or away from you, but flows parallel to the surface of the picture.

A tiny boat hovers on the surface of the picture like a splotchy swipe of diluted ink.

The uniform pale russet background, which is notionally a flat wall behind the woman, can easily read as the flat painted surface of the picture.

When the light is right, it is nearly impossible to tell which lines are stems and which reflections, so the surface of the picture is scribbled over with little mathematical puzzles and irregular geometric forms.

In each case the artist has altered the signage, either by respelling it or adding phrases in Spanish, with the changes spelled out in thread on the surface of the picture.

It was localised into blandness, it sat on the surface of the picture and it worked as icing on the cake of form: "Look what a pretty patch I am".

Brush the surface of the pictures and boards with a thin coat of the glue mixture.

One, the mix-and-match collaging is so obviously the product of some ready-made software program; and two, upon close examination, the surfaces of the pictures have the bland sheen of magazine illustration.

All the biographical yield is on the surface of these pictures.

What's more, designers can use modeling software like NASA's BLAST program to simulate hard-to-replicate environmental conditions, such as the surface of the moon (pictured), to test the robustness of their designs well before the prototypes are built.

Its high-definition photographs of great paintings, created in collaboration with places like the National Gallery in London and the Uffizi in Florence, allow you to zoom in to study the ridges and drips and brushmarks on the surface of a picture – to appreciate the texture, not simply the iconic image, of a work of art.